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gfretwell #207336 10/17/12 10:55 PM
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You can always run "some" windows applications/programs under Ubuntu, using a thing called WINE.
Now, I've never actually used this myself, but I have heard of people that have and can't fault the thing.

Greg,
I can really understand what you're saying about staying a version or two behind with Windows OS's.
I see that Windows 8 is in the pipeline, however I can't really see that selling that well.

I can't help but feel that the reason that Windows 7 sold so well, was people were trying to distance themselves from the Vista system they were using before W7 was released.
My 2nd desktop computer here runs W7 and although it took a bit to learn to drive it, initially, I really can't fault it at all.

I will say this though, if anyone needs a hand to get started with Ubuntu, start your own thread in this section and we'll get it sorted for you.
The beauty of an OS like Linux, is that you can do so much with so little memory and drive space cool

Trumpy #211623 11/02/13 02:47 AM
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Ubuntu, is now up to 12.04 LTS (Long Term Support), at the time of writing, this adds the new Unity interface and quite a few tweeks to the OS.

If anyone here needs a hand to install your own Ubuntu scheme on their computer, by all means post here, Linux is as stable as, in the 18 years I've been using Linux, I've never had a single crash or error message, open source is the way to go, because you have a ton of other people around the world updating the code.
Once these updates come to a head, they are released, they take half as long as any M$ update and they give you a stepped progress using a text based up-dater, while the new files install so you can see what is going on.

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Do the regular old windoze applications run on that?


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